Snap, Google, Facebook again dominate list of top iPhone apps

Apple released its list of top iPhone apps for the year and, once again, the list was dominated by titles created by Facebook, Google and Snap. Their apps combined for all of the top seven spots among free iPhone apps followed by Netflix, Spotify and Uber.

Why it matters: These companies dominate the share of ad spending so it's vital to their future to have top-ranked mobile apps as well. On the other hand, it's getting harder and harder for others to find their way to the top of the charts.

Apple also released its top 20 for other categories, including paid apps, free and paid games as well as leaders in podcasts, music, movies, TV shows and books:

Top Free iPhone Apps:

1. Bitmoji
2. Snapchat
3. YouTube: Watch Listen Stream
4. Messenger
5. Instagram
6. Facebook
7. Google Maps - GPS Navigation
8. Netflix
9. Spotify Music
10. Uber
11. Gmail - Email by Google
12. Pandora Music
13. Amazon – Shopping made easy
14. WhatsApp Messenger
15. Wish - Shopping Made Fun
16. Twitter
17. SoundCloud - Music & Audio
18. Google Chrome
19. Waze Navigation & Live Traffic
20. Lyft

Top Paid iPhone Apps:

(Our thought bubble: This shows the power of subscriptions, validating the bet made by Lightricks, the maker of photo editing apps Facetune, and Enlight)

1. Facetune
2. Tabs & Chords - learn and play
3. HotSchedules
4. Enlight
5. 7 Minute Workout Challenge
6. Videoshop - Video Editor
7. Dark Sky Weather
8. Sky Guide AR
9. Full Fitness : Exercise Workout Trainer
10. Word Swag - Cool fonts & typography generator
11. iScanner - PDF Document Scanner App
12. Scanner Pro by Readdle
13. Afterlight
14. The Wonder Weeks
15. NOAA Radar Pro – Weather Alerts & Forecast
16. Toca Hair Salon 3
17. LightX
18. Scanner for Me + OCR
19. 1 Second Everyday: Video Diary
20. Fontmania - Add Artworks & Text to Your Photos!

Top Free iPhone Games:

(Our thought bubble: This list tells you a lot about what people download, but not so much about which games brought in the money. Even though Super Mario Run tops the list, it was a one-time purchase to own the game. That limited its revenue potential as compared to games that rely on repeated in-app purchases.)

1. Super Mario Run
2. 8 Ball Pool™
3. Snake VS Block
4. Ballz
5. Word Cookies!
6. Subway Surfers
7. Episode!
8. Rolling Sky
9. Block! Hexa Puzzle
10. Paper.io
11. Solitaire·
12. Bowmasters - Multiplayer Game
13. Color Switch
14. Piano Tiles 2™(Don't Tap The White Tile 2)
15. Choices: Stories You Play
16. Roll the Ball® - slide puzzle
17. Clash Royale
18. ROBLOX
19. Word Connect ¤
20. Candy Crush Saga

Top Paid iPhone Games:

1. Heads Up!
2. Minecraft
3. Bloons TD 5
4. Plague Inc.
5. MONOPOLY Game
6. Geometry Dash
7. Monument Valley 2
8. The Game of Life
9. The Escapists
10. Assassin's Creed Identity
11. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
12. True Skate
13. RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic
14. Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
15. Papa's Freezeria To Go!
16. Five Nights at Freddy's
17. Hitman Sniper
18. Terraria
19. Reigns
20. Tiny Wings

Top Free iPad Apps:

(Our thought bubble: Video apps dominated the list, not surprisingly.)

1. YouTube: Watch Listen Stream
2. Netflix
3. Facebook
4. Messenger
5. Google Chrome
6. Amazon Prime Video
7. Gmail - Email by Google
8. YouTube Kids
9. Amazon – Shopping made easy
10. Spotify Music
11. Pandora Music
12. The Calculator
13. The Weather Channel App for iPad – best local forecast radar map and storm tracking
14. Google Docs
15. Google
16. Hulu: Watch TV Shows & Movies
17. Amazon Kindle
18. Google Maps - GPS Navigation
19. Google Drive
20. Microsoft Word

Top Paid iPad Apps:

(Our thought bubble: Here it was kids games that dominated, telling you something about iPad demographics, with children's app developer Toca Boca making up nearly half the list.)

1. Procreate
2. Notability
3. Toca Life: Hospital
4. Toca Hair Salon 3
5. GoodNotes 4
6. Toca Life: Stable
7. Duet Display
8. Toca Lab: Elements
9. Toca Kitchen 2
10. XtraMath
11. Toca Life: Farm
12. Toca Life: Office
13. PDF Expert by Readdle
14. Amaziograph
15. Notepad+ Pro
16. Toca Life: Vacation
17. Pixelmator
18. GoodReader - PDF Reader Annotator and File Manager
19. Affinity Photo
20. Toca Life: City

Top Free iPad Games:

1. Super Mario Run
2. ROBLOX
3. Rolling Sky
4. Word Cookies!
5. Bowmasters - Multiplayer Game
6. Subway Surfers
7. Paper.io
8. slither.io
9. Piano Tiles 2™(Don't Tap The White Tile 2)
10. 8 Ball Pool™
11. Block! Hexa Puzzle
12. Clash Royale
13. Roll the Ball® - slide puzzle
14. Color Switch
15. Minecraft: Story Mode
16. Cooking Fever
17. Hill Climb Racing 2
18. Minion Rush
19. Episode!
20. Snake VS Block

Top Paid iPad Games:

1. Minecraft
2. Geometry Dash
3. Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
4. Bloons TD 5 HD
5. The Escapists
6. Terraria
7. Five Nights at Freddy's
8. Goat Simulator
9. Monument Valley 2
10. Heads Up!
11. The Game of Life
12. Scribblenauts Unlimited
13. Five Nights at Freddy's 2
14. Goat Simulator PAYDAY
15. Octodad: Dadliest Catch
16. Goat Simulator Waste of Space
17. Plague Inc.
18. LEGO® Jurassic World™
19. Assassin's Creed Identity
20. SpongeBob Moves In

U.S. Music - Top Albums

1. Drake More Life
2. Kendrick Lamar DAMN.
3. Taylor Swift reputation
4. Ed Sheeran ÷
5. The Weeknd Starboy
6. J. Cole 4 Your Eyez Only
7. Bruno Mars 24K Magic
8. Migos Culture
9. Future FUTURE
10. Various Artists Moana
11. Post Malone Stoney
12. Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton Hamilton
13. Various Artists Trolls (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
14. Drake Views
15. Big Sean I Decided.
16. Travis Scott Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight
17. JAY Z 4:44 am
18. Future HNDRXX
19. Khalid American Teen
20. Chris Stapleton From A Room: Volume 1

U.S. Music Top Songs

1. Ed Sheeran Shape of You
2. Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Despacito (feat. Justin Bieber)
3. Bruno Mars That's What I Like
4. Kendrick Lamar HUMBLE.
5. Sam Hunt Body Like a Back Road
6. Migos Bad and Boujee (feat. Lil Uzi Vert)
7. Bruno Mars 24K Magic
8. DJ Khaled I'm the One (feat. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper & Lil Wayne)
9. Post Malone Congratulations (feat. Quavo)
10. Rae Sremmurd Black Beatles (feat. Gucci Mane)
11. ZAYN & Taylor Swift I Don't Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)
12. The Weeknd Starboy (feat. Daft Punk)
13. Drake Fake Love
14. James Arthur Say You Won't Let Go
15. Imagine Dragons Believer
16. Future Mask Off
17. The Chainsmokers & Coldplay Something Just Like This
18. Lil Uzi Vert XO TOUR Llif3
19. KYLE iSpy (feat. Lil Yachty)
20. The Chainsmokers Closer (feat. Halsey)

U.S. Movies

1. Moana (2016)
2. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
3. Wonder Woman (2017)
4. Sing
5. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
6. Trolls
7. Doctor Strange (2016) B
8. eauty and the Beast (2017)
9. Arrival
10. Spider-Man: Homecoming
11. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
12. Logan
13. The Boss Baby
14. The LEGO Batman Movie
15. Hacksaw Ridge
16. The Accountant (2016)
17. John Wick: Chapter 2
18. Hidden Figures
19. Baby Driver
20. Passengers (2016)

U.S. TV

1. Game of Thrones
2. The Walking Dead
3. The Big Bang Theory
4. Rick and Morty
5. The Americans
6. Suits
7. PAW Patrol
8. This Is Us
9. Modern Family
10. Grey's Anatomy
11. Better Call Saul
12. Sherlock
13. Scandal
14. RuPaul's Drag Race
15. Big Little Lies
16. Doctor Who
17. Planet Earth II
18. Homeland
19. The Flash
20. The Blacklist

U.S. Podcast - Most Downloaded

1. Fresh Air
2. The Joe Rogan Experience
3. Stuff You Should Know
4. The Dave Ramsey Show
5. The Daily
6. This American Life
7. TED Radio Hour
8. Planet Money
9. Pod Save America
10. TED Talks Daily
11. Freakonomics Radio
12. Up First
13. My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
14. Radiolab
15. NPR Politics Podcast
16. The Bill Simmons Podcast
17. S-Town
18. Up and Vanished
19. Global News Podcast
20. Stuff You Missed in History Class

U.S. iBooks Fiction

1. Camino Island / John Grisham
2. The Handmaid's Tale / Margaret Atwood
3. Origin / Dan Brown
4. Into the Water /Paula Hawkins
5. The Fix / David Baldacci
6. Big Little Lies / Liane Moriarty
7. The Girl Before / J.P. Delaney
8. A Gentleman in Moscow / Amor Towles
9. The Shack / William P. Young
10. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
11. A Game of Thrones / George R.R. Martin
12. It / Stephen King
13. Thirteen Reasons Why / Jay Asher
14. The Late Show / Michael Connelly
15. Milk and Honey / Rupi Kaur
16. The Rooster Bar / John Grisham
17. The Midnight Line / Lee Child
18. The Whistler / John Grisham
19. House of Spies / Daniel Silva
20. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

U.S. iBooks Non-Fiction

1. Hillbilly Elegy / J.D. Vance
2. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck / Mark Manson
3. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry / Neil de Grasse Tyson
4. The 5 Love Languages / Gary D. Chapman
5. When Breath Becomes Air / Paul Kalanithi & Abraham Verghese
6. The Glass Castle / Jeannette Walls
7. What Happened / Hillary Clinton
8. Option B / Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant
9. Killing the Rising Sun / Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly
10. You Are a Badass / Jen Sincero
11. Shattered / Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes
12. Al Franken, Giant of the Senate / Al Franken
13. The Operator / Robert O'Neill
14. Rich Dad Poor Dad / Robert T. Kiyosaki
15. Killers of the Flower Moon / David Grann
16. Born a Crime / Trevor Noah
17. Alexander Hamilton / Ron Chernow
18. The Magnolia Story / Chip Gaines & Joanna Gaines
19. Hidden Figures / Margot Lee Shetterly
20. Killing England / Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly

U.S. Audiobooks

1. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck / Mark Manson
2. The Four Agreements (Unabridged) / Don Miguel Ruiz
3. The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (Unabridged) / Stephen King
4. The Witness / Nora Roberts
5. How to Win Friends & Influence People (Unabridged) / Dale Carnegie
6. Hillbilly Elegy (Unabridged) / J. D. Vance
7. The Shack (Unabridged) / Wm. Paul Young
8. Extreme Ownership (Unabridged) / Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
9. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Book 1 (Unabridged) / J.K. Rowling
10. Rich Dad Poor Dad / Robert T. Kiyosaki
11. The Handmaid's Tale (Unabridged) / Margaret Atwood
12. The Art of War (Unabridged) / Sun Tzu
13. You Are a Badass (Unabridged) / Jen Sincero
14. The Alchemist (Unabridged) / Paulo Coelho
15. The Secret (Unabridged) / Rhonda Byrne
16. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Unabridged) / Neil de Grasse Tyson
17. The Five Love Languages (Unabridged) / Gary Chapman
18. The Total Money Makeover / Dave Ramsey
19. The Power of Now (Unabridged) / Eckhart Tolle
20. It (Unabridged) / Stephen King